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Title: Fumiko Uyeda Groves Interview
Narrator: Fumiko Uyeda Groves
Interviewer: Larry Hashima
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 16, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-gfumiko-01-0003

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LH: So your father came from, came to the U.S. in 1912, and he went to Rock Springs, Wyoming, obviously. What did he do when he first got there?

FG: Oh, he worked in the mines and then he kind of promoted himself or something, -- [laughs] -- and he started working for the railroad. In between times where there were slack times on the railroad and mining, my father ran a pool room.

LH: A pool room, sort of pool hall, you mean?

FG: Pool hall. Pool hall, yeah. So that was so he could live in the back of it and then he would have something to do. That was, it always was, my father always had that in mind you have to use your time efficiently and effectively and accepting, too, he liked gambling so it didn't hurt. [Laughs] I mean, it was something he liked to do, so...

LH: But running this pool hall, I guess, was his first sort of stab of being his own boss in a way.

FG: Yes, yes.

LH: Interesting.

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